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Just a bit of mountain fun

on the east face of Tryfan and you have never heard of me

keeping 3 points of contact at all times during this

just a bit of mountain fun

damned if i do , damned if i don't

but i will , and alone

at the summit jumping from Adam to Eve

mind the gap or it will take care of you

Darting up Helvellyn in a mad rush

it will be dark soon

think like a warrior and act like your not bothered

no such thing as giving up

it is a different type of frightend

purer , more real

and even the insects have come to see what i am doing here

i liked feeling things crawl over me

Do Snowdon from Crib Goch or we'll have nothing in common

wander An Teallach in the great wilderness

rejoice in the thought of getting so really very lost

Done Did Buachaille Etive Mor like a ugly little one

going unknown and unknown gone

Great Gable looks like a pyramid from Wasdale ,

but a dome from everywhere else =

i know from which diretion i am heading up it no probs

trying to blend in on Blencathra with 12 wainwright all for me

could do with getting rid of the weight anyway

the climbing endlessly is killing me but my soul loves it

so i am here in spirit

and must remember not to try too hard or risk losing out

BEN NEVIS BABY 

Mountain with it's head in the clouds

she's venomous and crazy in the mist

i would hold my arms out and was unable to see my hands

and knew somehow i nearly was not alright

by myself 18 , 19 , 20 ,

crossed the bridge shitting it

hoping i work with me here

telling myself giving respect does not always involve crying

how would i know the way up ?

and hahaha i am a lucky sod i know i know i know

been on Sca Fell Pike 2 times

put it this way the first time i did not have a compass or map

and it felt like i had done that to myself on purpose

but because it was a bad bad day up there

i met up with a mountain leader in trainning out in the madlands

GOD WAS I GLAD TO SEE HIM

and orr no but the second time i found myself up there again

it was clear and i got to see where i went wrong and where i was

and all sorts of personal bullshit doing my head in

my mate Nick who is a good friend showed me how to map read

i think he wished he had seen such an area in horrendous conditions

yes

frost bite throat cut

a skull in smithereens

when the wind has a grip

and your beginning to realise

you just want to '  get out ' alive

we do not know what is going on at all at this point ,

paths here cross , and it's all become a bit much.

an area of peril

◄ Going Back To Askeaton

what is the world coming to when... ►

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Dave Bradley

Wed 22nd Jan 2014 22:17

Wow! I really connected with this. There is a kind of madness to do with being in the mountains and you've expressed it so well. I've been frightened on the East face of Tryfan and jumped Adam and Eve (53" apart but feels so much more). Been battered by wind and hail more times than I can remember but KEEP COMING BACK, keep loving it. Last time I tried Crib Goch, the soles came off my boots and we had to cut down to the Pyg track by the Pinnacles. Hairy - as so often - but it won't stop me and it sounds like nothing will stop you.

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